MadTracker

Madison scoreboard in MadTracker v1.1.0. Track cycling — racing bicycles on a velodrome — is pretty niche. Even more-so is software to score such events. For a few years now my friend Glenn OConner has been volunteering at Mad Track Arena in Detroit using custom Excel sheets to handling the race scoring and scoreboard display. Out for a ride one evening he and I got to talking about the complexities and complications of the scoring work and, looking for another project, I realized I might be able to help a bit. He’s done a great job making it work, but we both thought a new tool might be nicer. Test scoring with an early version of MadTracker. After a couple weeks and around 100 hours of of spare-time work (mostly autumn evenings and coffee-sipping mornings on rainy vacation days), live testing at the track during races and practices, and extensive experimentation on our personal computers, I’m happy to announce MadTracker. The project is currently hosted on GitHub with…